New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-23

Smith Weed says that "thc Democratic party
is not In bad way How then does he account
for its choice Of him candidate for United
States Senator?
Well. we are getting on. TO be sure Here is
Secretary Whitney promising cruisers that viii
make anywhere between twenty and thirty knots
an hour; and now Secretary Bayard is looking
about for cOaling stations In the South sels :.
Possibly Gordon Of coaling stations VIII be
necessary In order TO keep up the speed OF the
English American navy. The cruisers are not
expected, II may be, to be heavily loaded down
with coal, but to make frequent stops at stations
and - travel light.
Mr. Henry George proposes TO smash the Amer
lean tariff. property rights the world and the
Catholic Church. This Is big contract for
man of Mr. Georges size to take
The story OF those two young rufiians who shot
and killed young Mead at White Plains and then
wcro tho adventures Of boys whose minds had
been poisoned by yellowbacSed Literature. They
were brothers. only seventeen and nineteen years
old, without any adequate motive for their crime
Its performance was not after the fashion Of pro-
fcssional robbers 1t was gnndiloquent and m
the style adopted by tho Dare Devil Dicks of
dime novel notoriety. 1t looks IL, starting out
with this spirit Of deviltry and brayado, they
had become terrified by their crime and had
killed themselves out Of fright.
IL was q great day for the Chinese yesterday
IL was the beginning Of the New Years holidays
for the Celostials when tho Chinese doctor is paid
his dues, and when all wicked utterances and
acts are supposed to be forgiven.
There Is certainly highly demoralized con-
I, In f1,a fha
city IL the statements made by q discharged mes
sengcr who was arrested on Thursday for thevmg
are true. lie says that his wages poor
that he learned TO steal. and that most Of the
regular messengers will steal IL they get q chance
These allegations arc fortunately not borne out by
experience Few cases OF dishonesty among the
messengers employed by the district companies
come to lght. These boys have access TO many
houses and temptations 10 steal II they arc SO In
cllned. are not wanting 1t is to their credit that
In spite of their meagre pay they generally resist
the impulse to evil
Two courts are occupied with libel suits Grow
ing out Of the alleged wrongful use of the epithet
"Mugwump." II man has been called O Mug
wump and proves he Is not, we think he Is en-
titled TO damages
We don't suppose that "The Evening Post
has tho physical, not to speak Of the moral ability
to tell the truth about any circumstance with
which Mr.. Blaine is connected. On such subjects
ii must lie. IL is constitutionaly and inherently
Obliged to lilo. II 1t attempted To tell the truth it
would die Of nervous shock, or II it got over the
shock it couldn't possibly fail to choke to DEATH
Yesterday 1T lied like this, Mr.. Blaine has
written "a letter to say that what he said tho
day before was not what he would have said IL
he had realized how 1t would look when it got into
print. This lie, which Is obviously meant to be
funny Lie, vas occasioned by Mr.. Blaines do.
NAL Of some statements attributed to him by the
Mugwump psper which docs tho Blaine lying Tor
stroualy Ans 1ots "a start . ls about Mr.. Blaine
nd. then sbvaA hin Tor denying " uhax xould